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With the presidential and congressional elections in the rear-view mirror there is significant speculation about how health care policy will change in the coming years While the nature of that change is uncertain one undeniable fact is thatin addition to policy changesmuch of the change in the way health care is paid for and delivered in the coming years will come from front-line organizations where patients receive clinical care However there is general consensus that the pace of change in these environments is slow and that its challenging to progress ideas More >>

America’s entrepreneurial economy is the envy of the world. Young companies account for almost 30 percent of new jobs, and as we have fought back from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, startups have helped the U.S. private sector create 15.5 million jobs since early 2010—the longest streak of private-sector job creation on record. More >>

The year 2016 presented the world with a number of big surprises Some positive some negative depending on whom one asks Here at Medgadget 2016 will be remembered for many amazing and pleasantly unexpected medical technology developments many of which are foreshadowing cures for spinal cord injuries effective treatment of diabetes new ways to fight heart disease and many other long sought-after medical solutions Virtual and augmented reality systems new imaging techniques and innovative delivery approaches are changing the way doctors learn and take care of patients More >>

America's opioid epidemic has had far-reaching and generally devastating consequences.
Now, the impact is being seen in organ donations.
Coinciding with a rise in drug-related deaths, the number of organ donors who died of drug overdoses has sharply increased in recent years — "a silver lining to what is absolutely a tragedy," Alexandra K. Glazier, president of the New England Organ Bank, recently told U.S. News & World Report.
Last year, 848 organ donors died of drug intoxication, according to Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data. And while such organ donors have become more common over the decades, the recent numbers show a staggering jump. More >>

Consumers of healthcare have historically been one step removed from the industry. Most often positioned as passive stakeholders, consumers are faced with complex and asymmetrical information in a system plagued with rising prices and higher deductibles. As patient-driven care gradually replaces a culture of medical paternalism, patients are increasingly in the driver’s seat of their own health. And just as the Internet has changed the way we learn, communicate, shop, bank, and work, so too is it changing the way we manage our own health and healthcare.
NPR’s Planet Money recently noted, “Healthcare is this totally ‘weird’ and different part of our economy.” We’ve noticed—which is why we love digging into how the industry is being shaken up by technology. Our second annual 4,000+ person nationally-representative survey is full of insights and valuable data. We deploy this survey each year to better understand consumer sentiment and adoption of digital health, reveal consumer attitudes toward health privacy and trust, and gauge overall consumer behavior (see our 2015 report here). More >>

Artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, virtual reality, medical robots these disruptive technologies are completely changing the way patients and doctors think and act about healthcare. Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla once said that technology would replace 80 percent of doctors in the future because machines will be more accurate, objective and cheaper than the average doctor. We would not need doctors at all eventually, he added.I disagree. Instead, technology in some specialties will finally allow doctors to focus on what makes them good physicians: treating patients and innovating, while automation will do the repetitive part of the work.While digital health already has a huge impact on the way doctors work, it clearly matters a lot what kind of tasks we allow them to take over. There are many repetitive and monotonous tasks which most medical professionals hate to do, while digital health solutions can do it better, faster and cheaper. These tasks usually do not contain any creativity or empathy. I would say the human touch is missing completely. Digital health should replace such responsibilities. Yet, as healthcare is not a linear process where an input leads inevitably to the wished output, there is a bigger need for the creativity and unique problem-solving skills of doctors than ever. These are the skills no digital health device or software can and will replace. More >>

More and more direct-to-consumer wearables companies are moving into business-to-business healthcare markets Its not exactly a surprising move -- the potential for consumer technology to encourage healthier lifestyle choices is a core thesis of digital health and one that could have big implications for healthcare as it faces a rise in chronic conditions More >>

Summary: The shortage of data scientists is driving a growing number of developers to fully Automated Predictive Analytic platforms. Some of these offer true One-Click Data-In-Model-Out capability, playing to Citizen Data Scientists with limited or no data science expertise. Who are these players and what does it mean for the profession of data science?
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(CNN)The leading causes of death remained the same from the year before: Heart disease is the No. 1 killer, followed by cancer, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and infant mortality decreased 2.3%.
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The global market for patient engagement solutions was valued at 74 billion in 2015 according to Grand View Research and is expected to rise to 393 billion by 2024 a more than fivefold increase over nine years More >>

Evidence is mounting that doctors who receive as little as one meal from a drug company tend to prescribe more expensive, brand-name medications for common ailments than those who don't.
A study published online Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine found significant evidence that doctors who received meals tied to specific drugs prescribed a higher proportion of those products than their peers. And the more meals they received, the greater share of those drugs they tended to prescribe relative to other medications in the same category. More >>

U.S. regulators proposed requiring all new cars to feature technology allowing them to “talk” to one another, a step toward modernizing vehicles to use the airwaves for anticipating and avoiding crashes. More >>

There once was a virus that swallowed a spider. Or a few spider genes, anyway. Researchers studying WO, a virus that infects a bacteria found in most spiders and insects, found a surprising collection of animal-like snippets in the virus's DNA. This spider-bacteria-virus-spider turducken was reported Tuesday in Nature Communications. More >>

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